Best Free Apps for Daily Health

With technology in our pockets, there are ways we can monitor nearly every part of our lives. There are apps that help us find movie tickets, help us find rides, help us find hotels, and a wide variety of other things. There are also apps out there that help us keep track and keep up to speed with our daily health.

Our health is of utmost important, so why not use the technology that we have on our watches and phones to encourage us to be healthier? Some of the best apps for your daily wellbeing are the following:

1. MyFitnessPal

This app allows you to track your personal eating habits and exercise every day with the touch of a button. This app is particularly helpful for those trying to lose weight as it has you input a weight goal and then gives you a set amount of calories to eat for each day and keeps track of how many calories you have left for a day, keeping exercise into account. It also keeps track of the macronutrients (carbohydrates, fat, protein, etc.) that you eat as well.

2. Happify

Now, health is not strictly relegated to eating and exercise. Your emotional well-being is part of your health, and this app helps you be happier. By using games and daily activities developed by researchers, this app helps set you into a happier mindset. This app is free with optional in-app purchases, but there is a quite a bit for the everyday user on the free portion to help you become a happier person.

3. Sworkit

Sworkit has workouts that you can do without having to go to the gym. There are a wide variety of workouts that focus on different parts of the body, such as upper strength and core and it also incorporates cardio workouts. There are also other workouts you can peruse and add to your personal routine that are more geared to what exactly you are wanting out of your workout.

4. ShopWell

This app helps you eat the healthiest food for you and grades the food that you eat on a regular basis: the closer to 100% being the healthiest option for you. This app also suggests healthier options for you if you are eating a food that has a lower percentage. This app is perfect for those that want to eat well, but aren’t sure what foods are best. It also take your personal weight, height, and age into account when giving you food feedback.

5. Zombies, Run!

This app is truly unique in how it makes exercising a game. It encourages the user to run to escape from zombies, and the app allows you to carry out basics missions, take care of a base camp that you set up, and protect humans from the zombie apocalypse. This app may not be for everyone, but this app is certainly one of the most unique apps out there that provides an interesting incentive to run.